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  1. William Nicholas Selig (March 14, 1864 – July 15, 1948) was a vaudeville performer and pioneer of the American motion picture industry. His stage billing as Colonel Selig would be used for the rest of his career, even as he moved into film production.

  2. William Nicholas Selig. Producer. Additional Crew. Director. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Born into a large Bohemian-Polish family in Chicago on March 14, 1864, William N. Selig was one of the true pioneers of the motion picture industry. Though not widely remembered today, his Selig Polyscope Co. was responsible for many landmark events in ...

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  3. Learn about William Selig, one of the first American motion picture producers and studio founders. He was a vaudeville performer, a patent challenger, and a West Coast filmmaker.

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  5. May 20, 2009 · Unknown pioneer. By SUSAN KING. May 20, 2009 12 AM PT. William Selig is one of the unsung heroes of the early days of cinema in Los Angeles. A jack-of-all-trades, he worked as a vaudeville...

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  6. U.S. film pioneer William Selig improved the early motion-picture camera and produced some of the first feature-length films. He was also the first producer to open a motion-picture studio in Los Angeles, Calif., the locale that was eventually to become the film capital of the world.

  7. Inventor | Producer Born March 14, 1864 in Chicago, Ill. Died July 16, 1948 in Koreatown, CA. C ol. William N. Selig was a pioneer developer of the motion picture industry who made California...

  8. Oct 21, 2022 · Everett had rediscovered a lost moment in film history: William N. Seligs 1898 short film Something Good-Negro Kiss, the earliest known depiction of black intimacy on screen, starring actors...

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